Coercing beauty of Flowers

Photo  by Deki Choden

Flower is a part of the plant which is often colorful with pleasant aroma and pleasing in nature. Flower keeps people connected with the love of nature and when seeing, people turn their bold sentiment into a fresh and refining soul. Flower portrays symbol of life and beauty and thus, when received, people don't just feel vivacious and vibrant; they feel lovely and exceedingly special.

Photo by Deki Choden

Photo by Deki Choden

Photo by Deki Choden

Photo by Deki Choden

Flowers are not only plants, but a mesmerizing thing which attracts all the sentient beings like that of bees inviting honey from flowers.  If you love somebody, you offer a bouquet of flower. The seed of love and fondness which you have sown will reap and the person will respond to you making you as a splendor.  

   “Plant flower, Love flower, and Protect flower”

Love and affection from true heart

Photo by Karma Duptho

In life, without love a person is as same as insane. People consider love as the heart of life and unconsciously they fall into these powerful four letters (L-O-V-E). For me a love is something which has a sense to harm others and bring insane to sane. We cannot assure, assume or presume the power of love as it is infinite. 

I love an angel who is far away from me yet I can smell her aroma and feel her love which is dedicated to me. She is far, so far that the knot of love and promise keeps me alarming to cure her and love her till eternity.  My angel is made from a humble heart with compassion to others and knows how to respect love. She is indistinguishable from existent angels with a thousand eyes keeping all the evils away from her. Although, she is away from me I don’t feel the absentees of her as she keeps coming to my true reverie (dream) and makes me comfortable and delighted. What I desire for her is the only true love and unbreakable relation which we can proceed further. 

Photo by Leki Dorji

Her love for me is rain for desert and a candle to lighten the darkness. She is my adoring sun and doting moon to brighten my poor heart. Waited a long time to meet you but couldn't as you are distant from me. For sure you will be mine, and you keep a true promise to me that you will not leave me alone like an orphan. Otherwise, you cannot see me in this sophisticated cosmos.

2013, First snow fall

Photo by Dawa

Yesterday's day was astounding as 

the cloud boogied in the sky making different shapes  portraying today's  splendid snowing day in the 

Photo by Dawa

capital city. When I saw snowing outside my house, my heart was filled with the essence of happiness and joy. Reaching at Kuensel Phodrang famously known as Buddha point, pupils were busy playing and many of them were photographing to sculpture the memories in this stunning and striking day. The place was eye-catching for the visitor and I could see some of the tourist making their footsteps to the place and feeling deceit about the place. When I reached in front of Buddha statue I felt as if I was in paradise as the place looks more attractive than what it is. Thousands of snowflakes from the empty sky falls on inhabit and people enjoying with their loved ones is a memory to be cherished. Today’s day is most remembered day, as the capital city received a snowfall for the first time in 2013 year.

                                                                                  LOVE

Photo: Google.

She has many reasons,

Like changing seasons,

She always tries to act tyrant,

But I suppose not to be a rant,

I always try to love her like my dear

But she hates me when I am near,

For her my love is reverent,

I feel the pain of severe wound when I discern  about her obnoxious conduct,

She’s my dear, I stop my shoddy comportment.

Photo: Google.

I still love you till eternity.

With heart engulfed with love.

A Joint Convocation, 2013

Photo: Dawa

Photo; Dawa

The 4^th convocation for teacher graduates was held at Paro College of Education on 7^th of January, 2013 with total number of 1170 graduates, graduated in the year 2009, 2010 and 2011 from Samtse College of Education (SCE) and Paro College of Education (PCE). Addressing, His Majesty said a knot of promise to serve Tsa-wa sum should be instilled in the heart of an individual teachers. His Majesty advised the teachers to understand the national goals which are one of the important notes that a teacher should know. The four national goal includes: Security and Sovereignty,  Peace and Unity, Good governance and Preservation of Cultures (which is the symbol of sovereignty). One of the important notes that His Majesty shared with the graduates was “A teacher should have a respectable and decent role model and it is the responsibility of teacher to make student a prominent citizen of the country”.  His Majesty also said, as a teacher we should mien our student at an individual level with different expectations and aspirations. Despite of that, a teacher should inspire, motivate and correct the student and teach the students with greater zeal and zest. In collaboration, the students of Samtse College of Education (SCE) and Paro College of Education (PCE) performed flawless cultural activities to mark the joint convocation day. 

The Robust effect of photography

Photo: Yeshey Dorji

Photo: Yeshey Dorji

The art of Photographing is one of the inimitable professions that a privileged person takes over.  Through photos people express their desperate untold stories, nostalgic events and sometimes even hurtful stories which pins people’s heart and makes it feeble. People like me have a vigor passion to be a photographer and always admires and get enthused when I see people putting their vigorous effort in bringing their utmost photographs. Human emotion changes like that of a caterpillar changing to the butterfly but photo once it’s snapped, the durability stays to eternity. It doesn’t fade and dwindles away rather the memories are sculptured in stone with greater zeal and experiences being cherished. That is why people call photos not only an image but an art of memories. The photographic art is difficult yet it can be pursued with a patience heart and these arts can tantalize every individual who are committed to work as a photographer.

Photo: Yeshey Dorji

Photo:Yeshey Dorji

“Be a photographer”

Dawa, Volunteer at JDWPL

JIGME DORJI WANGCHUCK LIBRARY AND I

Jigme Dorji Wangchuk Public Library (JDWPL) was named after his Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuck passed away and it was established as a tribute to His Majesty Third King. The library was first established in the year 1980 in Bhutanese house opposite to Bank of Bhutan. When the library started functioning it had only some few hundred books and in 1986, the library was moved to present domicile and the library is located opposite to Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL).  Thimphu City Corporation (TCC) took over the library in the year 2000, since then TCC has taken charge of looking after the development of the library.

The library serves as nectar of knowledge where all the people wanting to collect the nectar knowledge comes and collects the sweet nectar and becomes a voracious reader. In order to entice readers and members the library takes initiative to host different programs which enhances student’s ingenuity.

 Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Public Library invites volunteers and makes them work in a library and makes them instill the real sense of volunteerism. I am one of the active volunteer working in the library and it is great pleasure to overhaul my volunteerism. Working as a volunteer at a library is an immense opportunity for me to learn new things and have a feel of new experience. Working as a volunteer, made me overhaul hardship and embrace experiences and knowledge in a short span of time.

Lastly, I urge all eminent youth and students to volunteer and make the voluntary work more than an 'eternity'. You volunteer and you work with your dedication, the knowledge and the experience is your superannuation. 

“Do your best and then let life do the rest”.

To save my boredom I acted as an journalist and wrote one report on rampant issue faced by government.

Youth unemployment rate down to 7.2%

Bhutan, the nation know for its happiness has almost 7, 00,000 (7 lakhs)  people living in the country in which more than 50% of it's population comprises of youth. The founder of Gross National Happiness (GNH), His Majesty 4th King always stresses further on youth and keeps in commemorating the importance of eminent youth as dignified asset of our country. Walking an talking about the youth unemployed in the country, Bhutan still has 7.2% of youth who are unemployed ans still under great vigor of finding their way to their destiny. Compared to previous year the rate of youth unemployment has declined by 2% and it is great accomplishment for the labor ministry for eradicating youth unemployment by 2%.

Upsurging in the number of youth dropouts and youth graduating every year is enormous challenge for the government officials a well as for the private sectors. Many of the youth desires joining government jobs than that of private job because job seeker sees more benefits in government jobs compared to private entrepreneurs. Moreover, the reason of upsurging in youth unemployment rate is because if rural-urban migration where all the young youth form rural places come to urban for healthier thoughts and lands up being unemployed. The major reason behind increase in youth unemployment rate is because of youth looking for standard job. Where they could find only few standard vacancies available and the number of youth job seeker exceeds the number of vacancies.

However, the survey of previous year showed that job vacancies available outnumbered job seeker. The total vacancies in 2011 stood at 7,814 and there were only 7,108 youth looking for jobs. This means, youth job seekers are not really interested in whatever the vacancies is being announced as a result the rate of youth unemployment remains at 7.2%. One of the official from Labour ministry said "youth unemployment is a result of mismatch of skills and expectations". He said even if job are available, people choose to remain unemployed.

In one of the private news paper, His Excellency Labour Minister said "if people are willing to work, we have enough jobs. For instance, we train about 10 people in laundry in Thailand, and after they come back we try to place then in some of the hotels, but the trainees are not interested in the job." The only thing Labour ministry can do is to carry out awareness campaigns and advocacies so that the youth are made aware of the reality.

For how long this perilous problem will continue? We wonder and everybody wishes to ponder the unemployed youth and the rate of unemployment. In Bhutan, at present there are more than 10,500 people without work and still struggling to get their place either in government or in private sectors.



Complied by Dawa.

Jeopardizing my writing vigor......

                          MY IMPRESSION ON PARO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

My mother always wanted me to be a very responsible teacher and my father wanted me to be an Army officer. But I had no aim as such like my other friends do. And I never thought I’ll be joining this college at this last moment. It’s not because I had no option that I came here, but because I thought over things so carefully and realized it would be a very good and a secured job for a boy. And so I’m here in this beautiful college…where the hills oversee the beautiful valley of Paro.

                                                                          

It was at about 9:30am on the 20^th of March, 2011 that I really entered the college; I mean it was my first time coming here. Some of my friends have already been here, not as a trainee though. I was so new to the place but let me tell you, the campus is just so great! New student teachers started arriving one by one and I was happy to see very new faces because I love meeting with new people. After a while the councillors came to allot rooms for us. I was so touched with their kindness and the sacrifices they did for us, the 1^st year batches. They had to shift their rooms to the old block and some even had to share their beds. They let us feel homely. For old hostel each room have a capacity of 2 to 3 boys and for new hostel the room have the capacity of 4 boys. I am so happy to have my previous school mate as my room-mates.

Our hostels are kind of far from our academic block and we have to walk down to our academic block passing our dining room, basketball court, and the senior lecturers quarter. We are divided into five sections of Primary Curriculum A, Primary Curriculum B, Primary Curriculum C, Primary Curriculum D and Primary Curriculum E. The lecturers are so interesting and yes, very encouraging.  Things here are different from our high school, the names especially. In the school we call the monitors by a different name while it’s different here. We call them the captains; here it’s class coordinators, councillors and the chief councillor. We call our educators the teacher and it’s the lecturer here. It’s just so different.  We have to do about 4-5 modules (subjects) a semester and we’ll be starting with new modules the next semester.  Actually we have two semesters a year, namely the spring semester and the autumn semester.  We have assembly only once a week i.e. on Wednesdays for only the 1^st year student teachers, the 2^nd year student teachers do on Tuesdays and the senior-most do on Mondays. The assembly’s a great one. We do our prayers, and then a kind of meditation that fresh our mind and the director/the assembly coordinator updates us with the important event for the day. The assembly’s for an hour i.e. 8:30-9:30 am.

Well…about the mess, I feel it’s satisfactory and I understand that it couldn’t be better than this because it’s not preparing only for me or just a few students but it’s preparing for the whole borderer. We get meat the alternate days but frankly speaking there’s got to be something special for those who are vegetarians, when they provide meat for the non-vegetarians. Other wise it’s just fine. 

The library here is very interesting. It has a vast number of books which seems very productive and worth entertaining. It’s very different from the school library, where we usually find fiction books. But here we see more of references than novels because we have to do more of research. And it’s a pin drop silence in here…just the real library. 

In short, I would say that I've come to the right place. Whatever happens happen for good and it’s because of our deeds we did in our past life that happens to us in this life. So I guess I did a very good deed that I got an opportunity to come here and prove myself to be a very responsible son, caring brother, loving friend and yes, a very proud citizen or a teacher of the nation. I think, I mean I KNOW I have achieved a part of Gross National Happiness goals.

 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

GREATNESS

Start to be Great

                                 

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. In order to succeed and become great you must start working, change your thoughts into ideas and ideas into actions. If you keep your ideas idle, then they will reel down to stump and the effort made becomes meaningless.

As rightly said, by Albert Einstein,“Stop concentrating on problems but focus more on solutions”. We have to erase our negative thinking, and instill the serenity of solving the problems with much determination. If your destiny is far behind the sea, you must start sailing from the other side of the sea. In between you will encounter various difficulties, but what is important to bear in mind is to challenge the worst to attain your goal. Behind every difficulty, there is always a gift of goal. As a saying goes, “to complete thousand strides you must start with a single step”. Every successful person starts the journey of destiny with a small dream and later strives to make it big with great profound zeal, tempo and meaning. Adversity, after all, is the greatest teacher. Remember, there is no motivation without a challenge.

If you haven’t start working, start now, it is never too late.  Every day and anywhere is an opportunity to learn to live, if you are not learning you are not living in this perilous cosmos. Learn through mistakes and learn every single minute, as learning is only the key to open your lock of destined goal. You cannot open a book without learning something, so learn something and open your books with your optimal learning capability. You will see the magic unfold. You shall reap what you have sown.

“Learn today and earn the wisdom of knowledge tomorrow”

RRREADING-A LADDER TO WISDOM

Reading is what we read and what we understand from the print. Almost everything we do in life requires knowledge. Therefore, one of the sources of knowledge is books.
The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the smarter we grow, the smarter we grow, the stronger our voice becomes. Speaking to our mind and making the choice is indeed learning through innovation and that is possible only if we read. Many of us spend great sums for satisfying our needs and wants but we don’t care to buy books. But there is nothing more precious than books. Learning never exhausts our mind instead it inspires us and gives us the ladder of wisdom.
Most people say they lack speaking skills. The art of speaking comes when we read and become voracious reader. There is no doubt becoming a fluent speaker if we are a constant reader. I consider reading as a discount ticket because if we want to travel to different countries and experience different cultures, the expenditure is more and many pupils have fear of losing money but if we buy books and read, we know the different cultures and we can use the wings of books to fly all over the world. So this is the ‘Discount Ticket”.
Pupil read for two purposes, first for pleasure and second for improving their vocabulary. For me I read for both purposes because it improves my vocabulary as well my speaking. I read to exercise my mind and to store the jewels of knowledge to use it today and tomorrow.
I end with a message to the reluctant readers that when you are bored, or feel lazy and sleepy please walk into a library and sit with a book because library is a hospital to cure your boredom and laziness .I promise you that if you read today, you will lead tomorrow
“READ TODAY AND LEAD TOMORROW”

Report on Mess.

PCE Mess

Photo: Dawa

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry says if we want to keep our vigor healthier we should get apposite nourishment but schmoozing about the mess in the college, the condition is poor. A student trainee pays Nu.850 from their stipend per month as a mess charge. According to some students who are availing hostel says their grievances are never considered instead they have to eat the nourishment under compulsion.

Talking to some ladies, they say the food they get is neither virtuous nor deprave because the amount paid to the mess proprietor is very less and it rarely costs Nu.10 per plate which is adequate.

There are more than 300 students who are consuming the mess food. Out of that some of them are vegetarian and some non-veg. The curry served to vegetarian are not comparable to that of non-veg. Talking to the head cooks, they say they are trying and depositing their hard work to make best out of it and to make two items for more than 300 students is thought-provoking. One of the students told “as far as I know they try not to vex us by giving crude curry”.

Beholding at the place the sanitation is poor. We can see lots of leftover food on the table, and the eater simply goes without thinking to clean his own table. Whose responsibility is it? The mess in charge Councilor Tshewang Gyeltshen was the right person to ask. He said that it is his/her responsibility to clean the tables after the consumption. In other colleges the cooks have their dress code and it looks clean with their dress worn, talking about the college mess they don’t have dress code as well and it looks imperfect without the dress.

In previous semester there used to be schedule attached on the wall and according to the menu they used to feed the students, now there isn’t any menu and whatever is available the store they give to us. Beholding on another site, it is not fair for the student to eat whatever cook cooks for them. “These food issues have been like the culture preserved in the hostel for long time and no one is looking after the welfare of poor trainees” said by one of the aged trainee. We think someone should tackle these issues but whom do we blame, whose responsibility is it? For how much these culture will exist? We wonder and everybody looks to find ponder who can help the poor trainees.